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LAST. No. 266,298. Patented Oct. 24, 1882..

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UNTTEE STATES PATENT EETEE.

JAMES F. MGMULLETT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGrNORk TO JAMES WT. BROOKS, (TRUSTEE) OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

LAST.

SIDECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 266,298, dated October 24, 1882. Application tiled August 15), 1882. (No model.)

To allwhom t'mcy concern: bly held in the main part d. ot' the heel by 45 Be it known that I,JAMES F. MCMULLETT, means of the pin e, piece c resting against a ot the city and county otl Philadelphia, State spiral spring, m. of Pennsylvania, have invented an Iinpro ve- As thust'ar described,thelast is as common. ment in Lasts, of which the following` descrip In accordance with my invention I provide the tion, in connection with the accompanying part cI with a movable heel-seat, f. This heel- 5o drawings, is a specitication. seat has a stem, g, which is placed looselyinto My invention in lasts is shown as embodied a socket in the part d, as shown in Fig. l. in an iron last ot' the shape commonly em- This stein is provided with a groove, 2, which 1o ployed to hold boots or shoes when being receives the conicd end ot the screw 3, the

lieeled,or while their heels are being,` trimmed. latter preventing the stein g from being drawn 55 In this class ot' last as heretofore made the ont ot' the socket in the last, but permitting; lieelseat has been a fixture, and has operated the stein to turn in the said socket as the heelditerently when used to hold right or left foot scat is vibrated or moved to one or the other 1 shoes in a machine for trimming the heels of side of the part d ot' the last by the action ot' boots or shoes. l a shoe placed on the last. The loosely-held 6o My invention consists in providing a last heel-seat at its under side is provided with a with a pivoted heel-seat. stop, h, extended down into a short slot, (see The ixed seat, resting within the shoe in dotted lines, Fig. 2.) which limits the extent zo contact with the heel end ot the inner sole, of vibration ot' the heel-seat; butin practice,

has acted against the material of the shoe just when the last is in a shoe, the heelseat seldom, 65 at the rear et' the shank and next the sole, so if ever, vibrates sut'liciently l'ar as to cause the as to force outward at that point for too great pin li to meet the end ot' the slot in which it a distance the upper or quarter which is to plays.

25 cover the inner side ot' the foot of the wearer I claimot the boot or shoe, but the portion ot' the l. The toe-piece A ot the last, the center 7o shoe to cover the outer side ot' the foot has not i piece, and main or heel part d, combined with been pressed ontt'ar enough,and consequently the independent movable heelseat j', substanit has required considerable care on the part tially as and for the purposes set forth.

3o ot' the operator when trimming the heels of 2. The main or heel part ot' the extensible right and left foot boots or shoes to trim the last, and theheel-seatf, pivoted thereon to 75 same uniformly. This difficulty I have avoided move or vibrate horizontally, as set forth,com by pivoting the heel-seat so that it may readbined with means, substantially as described, ily turn on the main wheel part of the last and to limit the extent ot' horizontal vibration ot' readily adapt itselt' to a right or left i'oot boot the heel-seat to right and left shoes, as and for or shoe. the purposes set l'orth. Se

Figure 1 represents in side elevation and Intestimonywhereof I have signed my name partial section a last embodying my inventhis specification in the presence ot two subtion 5 and Fig. 2 represents a top view thereof, scribing witnesses.

4o the full and dotted lines showing the heel-seat l JAS E MOMULLETT.

in its two extreme positions.

The toepart A of the last is pivoted upon Witnesses: the extension-rod or center piece, o, at b, and JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, the rear end ot' the center piece, c, is adjusta- W. F. KTRCHER. 

